• Support Us
  • Editors’ Picks
  • Features
  • Reading Lists
  • Shortreads
  • Best of
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
  • Mastodon
Skip to content
  • Editors’ Picks
  • Features
  • Reading Lists
  • Shortreads
  • Best of
Longreads

Longreads

Longreads : The best longform stories on the web

  • Support Us
Support Us

fascism

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Forgotten History of the World’s First Trans Clinic

by Seyward Darby March 7, 2023March 7, 2023

The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology.

Posted inCurrent Events, History, Quotes

‘Salvini’s Decree’ Evicts Italian Migrants from Temporary Shelter

by Danielle Jackson January 30, 2019October 19, 2022

Italy’s “Salvini Decree,” passed last November, has already altered life for many migrants to the country.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Story

Defeating the Celluloid Axis

by JW McCormack August 20, 2018October 19, 2022

The invisible language of film permeates Christian Kracht’s “The Dead,” prose that is neutral and shot through with so much darkness, you occasionally can’t find the light.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

How We Write About the Nazis Next Door

by Catherine Cusick November 28, 2017October 19, 2022

The Nazi next door is still a Nazi.

Posted inEditor's Pick

How to Build an Autocracy

by michelleweber January 31, 2017October 19, 2022

The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism.

Posted inNonfiction, Story

Red, White, and Bruised

by Longreads July 14, 2016October 19, 2022

When Donald Trump and the GOP Convention arrive in Cleveland, they will find a city with a long history of violent outbursts, racial tension—and brushes with fascism. In short, the perfect stage for the 2016 presidential campaign. Kyle Swenson explores the history of his hometown.

Longreads
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
  • Mastodon
  • Home
  • About
  • Membership
  • FAQ
  • Submissions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Notice for California Users
  • Press
  • RSS Feed
  • Opt-out preferences

Part of the

family

© 2023 Longreads. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}